GenX-Education
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00:00Nouns, Singular and Plural
00:06A noun can refer to one or more than one person, animal, place or thing.
00:16A noun that means one person, animal, place or thing is called a singular noun.
00:26For example,
00:29A boy, a cat, a house, a flower
00:36A noun that means more than one person, animal, place or thing is called a plural noun.
00:46Plural Noun
00:50For example,
00:52Boys, cats, houses, flowers
01:01We add "-s' to most of the nouns to show plural form.
01:08We add "-es' to nouns that end in "-ch", "-sh", "-o", "-s", "-ss", "-x", and "-z", to get their plural forms.
01:29For example,
01:32Ostrich, ostriches
01:38Dish, dishes
01:43Mango, mangoes
01:48Bus, buses
01:54Princess, princesses
01:56Fox, foxes
02:01Quiz, quizzes
02:06Sometimes, some words ending in "-o", take only "-s", in its plural form.
02:15For example,
02:17Piano, pianos
02:19Look, the plural of ox is oxen, not oxes.
02:27The nouns that end in a consonant followed by "-y", change into plural form by changing the "-y' to "-i", and then adding "-es".
02:43For example,
02:46City, cities
02:50Country, countries
02:55Hey, don't drop the "-y' from monkey.
03:00The plural of monkey is not monkeys.
03:06It is monkeys.
03:08Just add "-s' at the end.
03:12The nouns that end in a vowel followed by "-y", change into plural form simply by addition of "-s".
03:23For example,
03:26Key, keys
03:30To find plural form of "-s", add "-s".
03:33Key, keys
03:37To form the plural of a noun that ends in "-f", or "-fe", we replace the "-f", or "-fe", with "-ves".
03:51For example,
03:54Leaf, leaves
03:58A few words do not follow the rule.
04:03For example,
04:06Chef, chefs
04:10Some nouns have the same form in singular and plural.
04:17For example,
04:19Sheep,
04:22Hare,
04:25Deer,
04:27Bison
04:29Nouns that do not form plurals in the usual way are called irregular nouns.
04:40A few singular nouns form their plural by changing the inside vowel or vowels.
04:49For example,
04:52Man, men
04:54Tooth, teeth